Were you someone who couldn’t get your pre-order in for the new iPhone 4? Whether it was because the servers were overloaded, or they cut the pre-order off completely, it looks like that might have been your only shot of actually get the device on June 24th. At least, if you don’t want to shop at a third-party retailer. Today, AT&T announced that they’re going to push back walk-in purchases of the iPhone 4 to June 29th.
Why? Well, they’re still citing the whole “ten times more pre-orders than ever before” deal, so we’ll go ahead and say that we believe them. Considering the level of pre-orders reached more than 600,000, we can fully understand why they would need to delay the walk-ins. This won’t impact people who pre-ordered their iPhone 4. Indeed, AT&T affirms that if you’ve done the deed, then you’ll have the new iteration of the iPhone waiting for you.
Unfortunately, it looks like the only way you might get lucky on June 24th is if you stop in at a Walmart, or RadioShack, or Best Buy. We know some people aren’t fans of third-parties, but hey, if you want it, you’ve got to make some sacrifices, right?
While that would probably be enough for avid meeting attendees, Livescribe are looking to extend the usefulness of the Echo by including an app store. Accessed via the Livescribe Desktop app, with software synchronized over to the Echo via microUSB connection, it turns the Smartpen into a translation tool, a musical instrument or anything else developers can come up with via the free SDK. Unsurprisingly it’s the language apps that are most obviously useful; a dictionary app, for instance, shows definitions of your handwritten word on the OLED screen, while various translation apps can automatically convert your handwritten notes into other languages. Of course, developers are also coming up with more unusual software, so you can sketch out strings or staves and play your notepad as a guitar or piano, convert currency or even play games like Sudoku.
